Social assessments

Funded by In-kind by partners
Type Working group
Time period 2014-03-03 - 2020-09-30

This group has a focus on social aspects throughout the entire life cycle.

Background

There is a need of working with/handle social aspects in a (harmonized) structured way throughout the entire life cycle in complement to environmental-LCA. Swedish Life Cycle Center has gathered researchers within Sweden who are active within this field together with some of our industry partners which has taking part of the international methodology development to share experiences.

Updated guidelines for Social life cycle assessment of products and organizations, from The Life Cycle Initiative was published in December 2020. A link to the updated guidelines can be found below.

Aim

Explore how to handle social aspects throughout the entire life cycle:
a. common research projects
b. forum for discussion: exchange of information, learn from each other
c. common strategic intelligence
d. participate in the 7th international conference on Social LCA in Gothenburg 2020.

 

More information

7th international conference on Social LCA 2020, Gothenburg

Guidelines for social life cycle assessment of products and organizations

 

This group has no chair at the moment and the dialogue is taking part at My page in the Swedish Life Cycle Center internal page.

Photo:  Jilbert Ebrahimi on Unsplash

Project organisation
Chalmers University of Technology Essity Hygiene and Health IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute KTH Royal Institute of Technology Nouryon RISE Research Institutes of Sweden SKF Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Volvo Car Group Vattenfall